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Iraq took control Friday of billions of dollars in oil revenues set aside by the United Nations following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, money intended to be used build up the country’s economy.

With no heir apparent to Venezuela’s presidency, politicians are jockeying for power as President Hugo Chavez undergoes medical treatment in Cuba, analysts said.

Thailand’s first elections since last year’s violent protests place it at the crossroads between national reconciliation and further destabilization, a scenario analysts believe could have serious implications beyond its borders.

Walking down the streets of Beijing, it’s hard to avoid seeing red slogans lining the sidewalks. Switching on a TV at home, almost every channel hosts a gala show performed on a red-colored stage.

Clashes continued Thursday in southern Yemen after 30 soldiers and at least 14 militants were killed in fighting a day earlier, two security officials said.

Hundreds of thousands of British teachers, air traffic controllers, customs officers and other public sector workers went on strike Thursday, causing disruption to schoolchildren and travelers.

The family of American student Amanda Knox is happy that new DNA analysis has called into question her murder conviction, but won’t celebrate “until she walks out of that prison,” her mother said Thursday.

Four members of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah have been indicted in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, a high-placed source in the Lebanese Army confirmed on Thursday.

Syrian tanks and helicopters opened fire and killed at least two civilians as the military advanced through a series of villages in northwestern Syria on Thursday, a push that sent residents running for the hills, several villagers said in phone calls …